A Russian court in the Siberian city of Chita fined a local resident for telling the press about the fine he received earlier for telling about a dream about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, independent Media Zone reports. informed on Tuesday.
Ivan Losev was fined 70,000 rubles ($986) for “discrediting” the Russian armed forces after he gave an interview Russian service BBC in December and commenting in a video for the expatriate Russian news channel Dozhd about his initial run-in with the law.
Losev told both publications about the fine of 30,000 rubles ($423) he received in December for an Instagram post in which he recounted a dream about Zelensky. in accordance with RFE/RL Branch Siberia. Realities.
“Today I dreamed that I was drafted and taken to training, and then the Ukrainian armed forces led by Zelensky invaded,” Losev wrote on Instagram in December, adding that he was cheering on Zelensky in his sleep, shouting the popular Ukrainian slogan “Glory to heroes.”
His mother Neli Loseva was also there last week fined for “discrediting” the Russian military after she liked a social media post condemning the invasion.
Russian authorities have opened nearly 5,600 administrative cases to “discredit” the actions of the Russian military since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago. respectively police monitoring group OVD-Info.
In March, Russia passed a law making it a criminal offense to spread information about the war in Ukraine that differs from the Kremlin’s narrative.
